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POETRY. THE UKREMEMBEPED MOTHER. Unknown, beloved, thon whose shadow lies Across Mr sunny threnhoM of my years; Vhnm mpmorv m-itli pntr.rMlinv v.a Se-k thro' the past, but cannot find for tears ; i : . i . . . . . . . .., .... iiuw miter is uie wougm, man, my cinia, Remember not the touch. Uie tone. Wbich mxle my young life thrill that I alone corpei uie tare mat o'er my cradle smil'd! And y. 1 1 know that if a. sujltlen lipht Berealed thy living likeitau, I should find That my poor heart hath mrtuWd Uiee aright. That hiiles thee from me, till I know by sight iae penect xace thro' love on carta imu-i. Catholic World fur October. FAITHLESS. I wonder if it seems as long Tovou; three years have passed, or more, 6inre. loath toci'ieak the linsl word. We parted at the vine-wreathed door. The gracelul gesiure of your hand. Your wistful eyes, I see thorn yet. And hear from out those pleading lips. The whispered mandate, "Don't forget." Ah. was it that yonr faith in me Was weak, or" that mv thoughts you read. And guessed the plot my brain conceived, KUtck as the heavens overhead ': Faet fell the rain ; the pall id moon Was hidden by the tempest's rack. "Adieu!" you cried; 'now dont forget To bring our best umbrella back !" Scrittner for Xortmher. MISCELLAXY. A MODEL BOY. The first time I saw Tipo lie was lying u Uie wall of the public garden in Venice, fishing with a pin-hook. He apparently consisted of two brown bare legs and a thing of shreds and patches called trousers. The rest of him was hanging over the lagoon. " Halloo, young man," said I ; " stay where you ar a minute. I want to make a sketch of you." lie lifted his head and showed me one of those delicious child-faces that belong only to Pa Vinci's angels. Two great innocent brown eyes looked frankly and steadily into mine. The mouth wore that sweet shadowy smile which Leonardo cast over the life of all his women and children. I extended my hand. The young fish-ernim dropped his pin-hook and laid his dingy Tittle paw therein. "This is more than mere circumstance," I said ; "this is an affinity. I will take this child unto my heart and adopt him while I stay in Venice. I am a poor and lonely Bohemian ; this delightful lxy is also a Bohemian, judging from his clothes. Let us be beggars and happy together." 1 elided by proposing that he should share my humble home ond fortunes, provided his mother would let him, clean brushes, go of errands, amuse the dogs, make himself generally useful, and ;o.o for me by the hour. "I will," he cried, tumbling off the wall. "Come along, Illustrissimo." So we went home to the dull abode of poverty. I introduced 1'ipo to the World, Sin, and the Flesh. Don't tremble in your virtuous shoes. They were only my dogs poor outcast curs that drifted with the tide in the lagoon to my door. They were lean, hungry-eyed creatures, always on the alert for blows and kicks. What better friends could an unrecognized artist have than three drowning, starving, miserable dogs? They were four-footed epigrams against fortune. It was too late to begin work that day; I could only form high hopes of 1'ipo on canvas. " We partook of a frugal repast. Fipo was initiated into the use of the fork. Then I offered for his consideration the first of a series of lec tures on the manly art of washing plaU-s J Hitherto the dogs had neatly polished them, and I had merely touched them J up with the towel. 11ns is the poetry of the artist's life. And yet, now that I have made me a name, now that friends and honor and fame are mine, I long with a wistful sadness for those dear old days in far-off Venice. Something I have lost which then made life glorious. If I could only step out into my loggia at sunset, after a hard day's work, and hear in the rustle of the trees in the garden, in the roar of the surf at the Lido, in the veser bell sweeping over the lagoon, "The world is an infinite possibility. Go forth in the might of thy genius and youth and conquer the realm." I painted Fipo just as he was, in his rags and his dirt and his angelic imp-ishness. I wanted to paint him semi-nude, for the sake of that ripe golden skin of his. But I felt that my picture was destined for American eyes and I merely enlarged the holes in his garments.Fipo began to manifest an alarming fondness for brushes and colors. " Is it possible that I may prove the Cima-bue to this Giotto?""l queried. "Giotto tended sheep and Fipo fished with a pin-hook. Botterthat he should dredge mud from Venetian canals all his life. He shall never wield the brush with my consent." This m nlel bov of mine had one vice which all my efforts could not uproot from his youthful breast. He had the face of an angel, but he used language that would have brought a blush to the cheeks of a shipload of pirates. l'i)o soon settled to his own satisfaction that when I went to America he was to go likewise. I encouraged the idea from educational motives. " Fipo, how long is ft since you washed your face?" Fipo counted his fingers. " A week." "Well, when you go to America, Fipo, my boy, you'll have to wash your face every day, and your hands too, for there, my Venetian aristocrat, the people have a plebeian prejudice in favor of cleanliness." Fipo went off, and rcturning,said, with a confidential smile, "Me clean now; me go to America." Fipo came to me shortly after and with a graceful bow offered me a cigarette from a package in which he had iust invested. It was Saturday; our week's work was done ; we had squared accounts, and Fipo felt like a millionaire.I accepted and lighted it. "Look here, vounir man. when you go to Amer ica you'll have to give up the use of the weed, in the land ot tne irec, ana so forth, my friend, little boys of eight are not expected to be mute as far ad vanced in dissipation as old fellows of twenty." Thus did I administer moral instruc tion in small doses to my untutored sav age. Things began to look black in the lit tle old house on the lagoon. Fipo and I had been subsisting for some time on shipwreck rations. Never a foot cross ed mv humble threshold with intent to order pictures. Robinson Crusoe and Friday were not more entirely alone on the island than were Tipo and I there : l. .aiAi..1viiiiil rmtti rro with nnlv ju 1 11 .11 naici'uuuuu - j our own bright dreams and the prophet ic dory of sea and sky to keen us from utter wretchedness. I was up to the ears in debt with Fipo at this time. But he understood my position and did not dun me. He was a dear good fellow, this Fipo of mine, and would rather have gone cigarettelesstothc end of his days than have brought me face to face with insolvency by asking for centimes " I am poor, Fipo," I said, at last, openly and calmly; "poor as a church mouse or an artist." "I'll tell you something, padrone mio, that will bring you good luck," an swered Fipo, looking at me with his great earnest eyes. " What is it?" "You see, me want two cents me 1.!1V." I collected the required amount wjth Devoted to Politics, Literature, News, Agriculture, Science, Wit, Humor, and Home Interests. VOLUME IV. CALIFORNIA, MISSOURI, X0VEM15EII 11, 1875. iUMI5J7T" I i i . - some difficulty and cautioned Fipo to be careful how he laid it out. He came back with a small cage in his hand, containing three great black crickets. " They liringyou gixnl luck, padrone. Every body in Venice keeps them in the spring." " Well, I haven't much faith in them myself, not In-ing a child of the South, sunken in superstition and slavery, but we will hang them over the fireplace and see what turns up." The crickets sang on bravely for a week and did their best to bring me good fortune, I have no doubt, poor beasts, line morning I took down the cage, and behold there were only two legless torsos of crickets. 1 heir ampu tated limbs lay about the floor of the cage in expressive confusion. The third had emigrated. Later I found linn half cremated Iwhind the fireplace. " Fipo," I said mournfully, " vour crickets are a delusion and a snare." One morning, not long after, I was painting as usual, and Fipo was posing patiently before me. Suddenly there came a loud ring at tne door, vt hat could it be? Creditors I had none and visitors never. The dogs began to howl. I looked at myself. 1 wore a coat with fifty-two patches; I told Fipo to keep his attitude. I put on a bold face, and, bv way of encouragement, composed as 1 went to the door a new paragraph for my future biography in the " Lives of distinguished American Artists :" " It is related of him that even at this early stage of his career he had such confi dence in the might and power of his genius that he didnot hesitate to answer his own door-bell in a ragged coat." A white-haired gentleman stepped into the hall. The ilogs swarmed over him at once. 44 1 have been told there was an artist living here," he said, looking about him. "Down, my dears, down, I beg of you." 1 am the artist, or at least L try to be one." 1 thought his face looked familar. I remembered then who he was. The winter I was in Home I heard a gixul deal about him a benevolent old fellow who huuted out poor artists and helped them on. He had had a son mad after art, and refused to let him study. The boy ran away from home, came to Europe, painted awhile, gave hope of a brilliant career, and then tailing ill died of sheer poverty and nothing else. Aud so the father did what little he could to atone for his fault. Oh, I remembered him well. I ushered him into the studio. "That's a very nice little boy," he said, patting Fipo's shaven pate. "Does he go to school?" " He does not. He revels in ignorance and smokes." 44 Ah, I see you are painting; his portrait a young fisherman. Beautiful thing! Is it ordered?" I forced a pallid smile. "Orders are not plentiful in this establishment. I am' painting entirely for glory at present." t ' Then-would you allow me to secure it for a friend at home who is making a collection of native art? Could you finish it by the end of the month? And I know that artists mast have brushes and colors. I should like to leave an installment, if you will permit me." He laid a purse on the table. 44 Never mind thanks; I had a son once myself. Come up anil see me at the hotel." With his dear old face all aglow with kindness he started for the door. He waved me good-by with his umbrella. "Conic up and see me and we'll talk it all over." 44 CAine to my arms, O most blessed of Fipos. It's all through you and your crickets!" Who says that ravens no longer minister to the needs of hungry prophets? Who says that angels wtlk not abroad in human guise? The dogs barked for delight, and Fipo and I danced a jig for joy. From that day onward life prosiered amain. Friends gathered about, my orders assaulted me on every side, aud I exchanged the picturesque poverty of the house on the lagoon for the sumptu-" ous hall of a palace on the Grand Canal. Fipo staved with me until I left enice. He pleaded hard to be taken to America, but I felt that there he would le misun derstood. His innocent fondness forthe weed would be labeled 44 Juvenile de pravity;" his poetic raggedness would ie accounted squalor. So I left lnm in that beautiful city. where the marble domes rise from the wrter like great white lilies, and the boats dance over tne sea like scarlet- winged birds. There, where life is all ne golden afternoon, I left niy Fipo, We had borne joy and sorrow together and the parting was hard. Arid wherever I o I carry alout with me the memory of two innocent child-eves which finds its way continually on to my canvas And when I hear the critics say, 44 How much this face reminds me of Da inci. I laugh half wistfully, and think of the tender clnld-moutli mat smiteii up at me from the garden wall that lonely summer evening in far-off enice. Circumstances Alter Cases. The other day. while a Vicksbnrger was riding toward Jackson in his bug- T. he saw a long-haired joung man sitting on a roadside fence. There was such an air of utter desolation about the countryman that the Vicksburger drew rein and inquired : 44 For God's sake! what ails you, young man?" "Nothing, for God's sake!" was the meek reply. 44 lsut is anv one aeaar "Hain't heard of any body but old Matthews, and he went off two months ago." 44 Arc you sick?" 44 1 Uh'A kinder bad." 44 Well, vou look bad. In fact, you r the worst-iooKinsr vouim uiau x ic . , , ii seen since the close of the war." "I was all right till a month ago, said the voung man looking still more solemn. 44 What happened then?" 44 Woman went back on me!" 44 Did, eh? Were vou engaged?" 44 I'd hung around there for a year or so, and we'd hHgged and loved and hooked fingers. If that isn't being en gaged, then I don't know." 44 And she backed out?" 44 Yes." 44 Well, I've been through the mill myself' I had a woman go back on me in that way three months ago, and did not lose a bit of sleep over it. 44 You didn't?" 44 No. sir." 44 But. then." sighed the young man as he hitched along on the rail, 44 the woman you loved didn't own sixteen mules, and have a clean hundred bales of cotton to sell ! " V tcksburg ucraia, Willie was disputing with his sister. 44 It is true." he said firmly, 44 for moth er says so, and, if she says so, it is so, if it am t so," CALIFORNIA NEWS SUMMAKY. PKltSOTIL Al POLITICAL. A Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 31st nit. pivesa scmi-authoritativc expression of the President's views in reference to Cultan affairs, as emlHidicd in recent instructions t Minister dishing. 4 'The President," says the dispatch, "regards the civil dissensions in Cuba, amies-IH-vially the sanguinary hostilities, as producing effects in the I'nited States second in gravity only to those which they produce in Spain The continuance of the Insurrection prows day by day more insupportable by the I'nited Stales, aud while the attention of this tiovernuiciit is fixed on Cuba in the interest of humanity by the horrors of civil war prevailing there, it cannot forlicar to regret that the existence of slave lalK.r in Cuba, and its Influence ovcrthc feelings and interests of peninsular Spaniards, lie at the foundation of all the calamities which now afflict the island The question, what decision the I'nited States shall make, is a serious and dillicult one, not to Ik- determined without the careful consideration of its complex dements of domestic and foreign policy, but the determination of which mar at any moment In: forced upon us by occurrences either in Spain or Cuba. The President cannot but regard independence and emancipation, of course, as the only certain and even the necessary solution of the question of Cuba, and in his mind all incidental quest ions are quite subordinate to the larger objects of the I'nited States in this respect. The President does not meditate or desire the annexation of Cuba to the I'nited States, but its elevation into an in-dcH'iidcnt republic of freemen, in harmony with ourselves and with the other republics of America. The policy of the I'nited States in reference to Cuba at the present time is declared to be one of expectancy, but with positie and fixed conviction as to the duty of the I'nited States when the time for energy of action shall arrive." In connection with.the above is the following significant information, telegraphed on the same date: "Ihiringthetroublesgrow-ing out of the capture of the Virgiuitis by the Spanish man-of-war Tornado, our iov-crnuieut suffered great inconvenience on account of the very weak condition of our Xavy, but since ..that the Department has been doing all in its power with the limited means at its disjiosal to put the Xavy iu pood condition so that we may be ready for any emergency. The ironclads, Moutauk,:Manhattan, Saugus, M.tlin-pac, Nantucket, Ajax, Canonicus, Catskill, Jason. Dictator and others, are in sea-going condition, and should occasion require, they could be put into sen ice in five days. The new sloops of war. Alert, Alliance, Essex. Hanger, Adams, .Trenton, Huron and Enterprise, will soon lie ready for s a, aud most of them will be in service In-fore the end of the year." Mayor Otis, of San Francisco, died on the 'h ult. Hon. Amasa Walker, of Massachusetts, died on the iKith ult.. aged Tii. Mr. Walker was a well-known writer on political economy, member of Congress in isty and Ink!. Secretary of State of Massachusetts in l.s.11 and 1ST.2, and father of V. A. Walker, Superintendent of the I'nited states Census. An adjourned session o" the Arkansas General Assembly commenced on the 1st. On Tuesday, Nov. 2. election for State officers were held ill Massachusetts, New ork. Pennsylvania, Maryland. Wisconsin. and Minnesota; for Congressmen andineiu-fa-rs of the State Legislature ill Mississippi; foreoiintv officers and members of the state Ij-irislature in New Jersey. Kanas ami Vir- inia : and for county aud municipal nllii-crs u Illinois. The result of the elections is as flows: The lb-publicans are successful in Massachusetts, Xew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the Demo- rats in Xew York. Maryland. Virginia and Mississippi. The Democrats probably elect their c-andidate for State Treasurer in Wis- ousin. In Chicago. Hiiek, lb publican anitidate lor ounty I reasiirer. is t-iccti-ii. In Xew York City the Tammany candidates were nearly all dclcatcd. Alexander Lewis (Dcin.) has been elected Mavor of Detroit. iovenioi tiarland's message to the Arkau-;is Legislature recommends the passage of a bill in reference to the landed interests of the State; an aipropriat ion for the Centen nial, and the creation of a bureau of immi- ration, mining and agriculture. He also recommends that no general legislation be ntered upon during the present (adjotirn-d) session. Judge Treat, of the I'nited States Circuit Court at St. Louis, has appointed 1 hos. 1 . Ilulklev, of Xew Yolk, Oliver (iarrison, of t. Louis, and James II. Keach. of St. Louis, llei'civers for the Atlantic ami Pa cific Kailroad Company. The Arkansas Legislature has adopted a memorial to Congress asking that the Indian country fa' piveii a Territorial government.Augustus S. Caylord. of Saginaw City, Mich., has been appointed Assistant Attor ney - ieiieral for the Iuterior Department rir Wm. H. Smith, resigned. Hon. Thomas A. Jeiickes, of Rhode Is land, died on the 4th. It was reported on the oth-that a dead lock existed in the Indian Xational Council at Tahlciiuah. growing out of the official canvass ot the vote lor 1 liu-I ol Ilie gallon. which threatened to terminate in bl'Kidshed between the adherents of the rival candi dates, Ross and Thompson, faith of whom claim to have been legally elected Mm. Francis D. Moullon having leen summoned to appear fa-fore Plymouth Church, 15rook!yn, and show cause why her name should not be dropped from the roll of Membership on the ground of continued absence from services, on the evening of thr 4th appeared with Koger A. Prvor as her counsel, who read a protest signed by her, stating that her absence was an enforced one, caused by the crime of adultery committed by llcnrv Ward Uecch er, pastor of the church, with one of his parishioners, which she knew to be true through the confessions of both Mr. Beeehei and Mrs. Tilton to her. Her name, and also that of Deacon West, was ordered stricken from the roll. The Republicans at the National Capital on the evening of the Vth. celebrated their party victories in the recent State elections LV procession man lied to the Executive Man moii, where the I'resident addressed the as semblage as follows Gentlemen : I am Terr slad to meet von on this occasion anil to conicralulaU you on no rood a eaute for rejoicing to the entire country over the elections of iai mesuav. nue uie itcpun lican majorities were rot axrat. Uiey were suffi ricnt to accomplish the purpose. The"raR-itai.c-M has lMninLinlv fcutiiire&Bcd. and Uie neo- ple now know what lon! of money they are to h.n in the future, and I mm tnat vvc nave an assurance that the Republican will control this Government for at least lour years loncer. The Congn'Mtional ministers of Xew 1 ork and Brooklyn have appointed the followin committee to investigate the charges against the Rev. Ilenry Ward Beecher and report to the Congregational Association as to his fitness as a fellow-member: Kev. m. m. Tavlor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, New- York; Rev. Dr. Wm. Ives Budington. of Clinton Avenue Church. Brooklyn; Kev Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the Xew York Theological Seminary; and Rev. Charles Li Everest, of the Church of the Puritans Brooklyn. The investigation will be thor ough, and will Iegin with a careful t-crutiny the trial, after w hich new evidence will le sought. The meetings of the committee will fa in private, but the verdii-t will be published. The I'resident has ap)oiiiteil John B. Raymond Postmaster at Vicksburg, Miss., in place of Ilenry R. Pease, suspended under the teuiire-of-officc act. The Wyoming Legislature met and organized at Cheyenne on the 5th. OOMMEKCE A!tD I.It STRT. Oold closed in Xew York, on XovcinberC, at H.V. . The latest information from Virginia City is to t he effect t hat t he bu rut d ist rict is al ready dotted with shanties. Work is plenty and wages high, and the people are recovering their spirits. Relief is coining in freely, and no more aid is needed. The Xational (lold Bank and Trust Com-. pany of San Francisco suspended paynie on the 1st. This bank has been consM-' . weak sfnee the failure of the Bank of jlf foruia. and has managed to keep going mLf by paying small demands and securing extension on large ones. The olhcent elai that the v can ultimately meet all their In debtedllcss The October statement of the National debt shows a decrease during the month of sl,0(Zi.til."; currency balance, $i,7:Ui.i;71: coin balance. $7.".7s:S.4:l'.': deposits of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of de-lisit. ?."(),ssji.inio; coin certifii-jtcs, IHi.".100. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a rail for the redemption of .fT,nrt,uiN) of coupon and $."i.iMKi,000 of registered bonds, total 10. 000, OdO of the .VJO bonds of ISttt. The Sccrctnry of the Treasury has addressed a circular to the Collectors of Customs, announcing that no importations of meat, cattle or hides will fa- allowed from Kiigland from this date (Xov. .1). in consequence of the prevalence of the foot-and-mouth disease iu that country. Navigation on the Red River of the North was eloped by the ice on the 4th. SMSS.wni postal-cards were issued by the Post -office Department last month, the largest issue by at least .7!J,oiJU ever made in the same time. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that under the statutes all inventions for aging" spirits, when brought into use in bonded warehouses, according to the propositions made to the department, constitute the work of rectification and purification, and those using such processes fa-come rectifiers of spirits and subject to taxation as such. The Cubed Stales (Jralid Jury at Chicago, on the At h.. ret tinted a large number of indictments agaiiist whiky distillers, gangers and rectifiers of that city, for alleged violations of the revenue law. The Commissioner of the General Ij'iul cilice, iu his forthcoming annual report, will call attention to the fact that some of the extreme Wetrn railroads have smveeded in selling in the aggregate in:ny thouaud acres of worthless lauds to immigrants under l he representation that the soil was very productive, when they knew that the land was unlit for farming purposes. By such false representations many oi ine poor immigrants have been deceived, and they are left w ithout anv resource to recover it hack. The "ommissiotier desires that tlii matter may have the attention of Congress, so that the practice of Itnposiiiir on the poor immigrants may be broken up. CKIJIF.S CAM'AtVriF.S. While a party of six persons were boating n the Sntichaniia River, at t uadilla, X. , me noai upset, tum mi ,en .i..m- j tatetl into the water. Maurice innniricn aim his wife, of Woreesier. X. Y.. and Mr. Morehouse and his wife, of I'nadilla. were lrowncd. The tomtlriehes wen? on their wi-itiliu trip. The boiler of a locomotive on the Lchi-,'h Valley Kailroad exploded at Bound Brook, rciiit.. on the 1st. killing J hoina- Cooper. nirineer and Abraham King ami Wm. Thompson, brakemeii. .-Mid serioit-ly injur- ing :'bnit twenty olle-i-s, two of whom are itnv reported dead. In Xew York City, on the 2d, two Polish lews, named Joseph Goldman and Moses Pi-kit I, partners in the jewelry business. fought a duel with pistols in a private room. Goldman was shot over the rigid cheek and instantly killed. I'i-katt was shot over the ritrht eve and lnitrtallv wounded. The I'nited States Grand Jury at St. Louis, on the .VI. returned indictments airainst Wm. MeKee, one of the proprietors of the t;iohp.-l)pmicrnt, ami Col. Constants tic Maguire, formerly Collector of Internal Revenue, for complicity in whisky frauds. David Robinson, a farmer residing near Grct-ntown. Howard County. Intl.. on the night of the 3d inst. cut the throat of his little daughter with a razor and shot his mug stui, killing them both. He hail previously made an attempt to kill his wife and a third child, both of whom escaped from the hoiis without serious injury. Koiitnson men weni lo ko- koiiio and boarded a night freight trim, and on the following morning his dead body was found lying alongside the track near Jackson Station. It was not known whether he committed suicide or was accidentally killed bv falling from the train. Three colored children, aged respectively 10, 12, and l.t years, were bunted to death in a burning building at Washington, D. C, on the ni'.'ht of the oil. At Oxford, Miss., on the Pm1, Percy How ry, youngest son of Judge Howry, was accidentally killed while celebrating the Conservative victory iu the State. MISCELIJUVEorS. A very destructive fire occurred at Sher man, Texas, on the night of the 1st. It or- in ited in the St. Cloud Hotel, a wooden buildiiiL'. and extended on faith sides of the street as far north as the new Post-office building, which was destroyed with all its ontents. From sixty to seventy business houses were burned, and twenty-five to tliirtv families rendered homeless. Every printing-office in the place was burned. An e.-irtlion.-tke shock was felt tliroUL'lioill portions of Georgia on the night of the 1st. FOREIGN. The King and Queen of Denmark, anil their daughter, the Prim-ess Thyra, accompanied by Prince John ofSchleswig-IIol-stein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, arrived in England on the 2d. The royal party were met at Dover by the Princess of Wales and suite, and escorted to London. The distinguished visitors will remain until the beginning of Dcccmfa-r. The London Post of the 2d says the new-Texas cotton classes much fa'tter than the old, and quotations average 1-likl. higher. It t thought that Texas and New Orleans quotations will shortly be identical. A Quebec dispatch reports the drowning on the ."1st ult., during a severe gale, of 17 persons, residents of the Isle of Orleans, while returning from market. The Duke d'Audiffret-Pasquier has been elected President of the French Assembly by a combination of the Left with a portion of the Right. The act is regarded as a demonstration against the Bonapartists. Robert Von Mold, the German statesman and political economist, is dead. Ant coward can light a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. (leorge Eliot. DEMOCRAT. MISSOUM STATE NEWS. Grml Kotca. Twenty-five thousand car-loads of live stock have passed ovrr the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad since July 13. Of the $10.(1110,000 of bonds issued under the act of June 13, 1MU, lulled in for re-doniption by the C. S. Secretary of the Tfeasury, this State possesses $143.UJO in the IuMic School fund. Deputy I'. S. Marshal Xilehy lias committed John A. Joyce to the jail of Cole County. Joyce, it will lie remeiafaTed. was convicted of defrauding the Internal Revenue Department. Governor Hardin offers a reward of $200 for the apprehension of Chill ies Redferren, convicted in St. Francois County of the murder of James Christopher, in February. Boehauau County. 1 nomas Gavncy, yard-master at the St. and Council Bliills roundhouse at St. h, was run over by the cars aud in- T kiucu tut ine 4in. lie was cngageu fd!ig a switch when his foot caught be-J J"tUe rails and he was unable lo extri-M it. His remains were taken to W l-M! 1 . . AuroJ 3.J where he formerly resided. A,vIt Kfiort ou the part of cx-Gov. Woodao Of-Gqv. Willard P. Hall and Col. Switzlei M lrebase a one-third interest in the St. i&f1rGa:ttte, has proved unsuccessful, y Cape t.trartlrna County. Mr. A. G. Arkcriuan, Inspector of Material, and engaged in the improvement of the Mississippi River, was accidentally drowned near the Cape on the 2Sth tilt. Cooper County. Richards Ripley was shot twice by Charley Hudson, on thc.'ilst ult., in the western portion of this county. The ipiarrcl grew out if Ripley taking Hudson's horse without jicnnission. Datle County. Three young ladies who set fire to and burned the.M. -Milieu School-house at Greenfield about April of last spring, ami who were arraigned before Siniire lfoyt and ImiiiihI over to the October term of the Circuit Court, were brought fa-fore that ImkIv, the case being disposed of as follows: Miss Laura Willis pit ail guilty, and was sentenced to two hours in the County Jail; Miss Dora Chappcl turned State's evidence; Miss Fanny Mitchel denies the charge and her cae was continued until the next regular term of the Circuit Court. They are all three said to be fa-twee n the ages of 14 and 13. iirtrn County. At Spring;icld. on the 4th, Thomas Malli-coat was convicted in the Circuit Court of the crime against nature and sentenced to ten years in the peiiiieniiary. This is. perhaps, the first conviction under that statute ever found in the State. Howard Connty. Th unas Williamson, charged with the murderof William IVIchcr. at Fayette, five years ago, has Im-cii arrested. He has liecn iu Texas since the time of the killing. .rvvtou Connty. Tom Killiau, one of the men charged with the murder of Major Anderson, in Newton County, has been safely lodged in jail in Neosho. Il(r .County. Near Fredericksburg, on the'2Sth, a wanton attack was made by a desperado named Taekett, on the public highway, upon August Kclling. Julius Knott, SamuelCap-pi-H, Casper Kathotr. Louis Hi ggler and Ir. Koiiitky. during which the two last named were badly shot. Taekett was eventually overpowered ami taken to Herman and placed ill jail. PrtlU Connty. C. S. Rohauiioii. wife, daughter ami Mr. Redmond ami wife wen1 thrown from a wagon in Smitiiton. the evenimr of the :;ist ult. w hiie going to church. Mrs. RohaniMii fell on her head anil has liecn uin-oust-ions since the accident, and fa-licvcd fatally injured; all the others Miglitly. Four young men, Cairnt-sand Young Hal-comb, anil two brothers Brown, were arrested on the 2d. near Hoiitonia, charged with tiring into the t rains of the Lexington Branch Railway, and with placing obstructions on the track during a period running through the past two years. Another was stibsciuently arrested on a similar charge. A little son of J. R. Stewart, of Scilalia. was going to school the other morning, and got tin a wagon which was pa-sing to ride. He was thrown off. and the wheels passed over his hips and bowels, indicting seven-, if not fatal, wounds. Randolph County. A lire broke out at Moberly on the morning of the oil. destroying the Fremont House. Loss, f.'i.iNin. (aline Connty. At Col. Vincent Marniadukc's farm, near Arrow nick, on the 2d. at a sale of short-horns, there wa sold a bull-calf for 4'73. and a heifer at .!:; then :!S short-horns went off at prices ranging from .iO to -fiV'. St. LonU. A young man. aged I! years, has Wenar-n-slctl for making four separate attempts, within as many weeks, to tire a number of buildings fa-longing to W. H. Cutter, a carpenter doing business at No. 13S4 North Tenth Street. The St. Louis. Kansas City and Northern RailrtKid company ha. within a few days, given out the contract for building the ex-tciisioii of the St. Louis terminus from Ferguson Station to the Cnion depot, St. Louis. The distance is eleven miles. On the night of the 5th MonrocGuion shot Minnie KridliT. wife of the proprietor of a low dance house on the northeast corner of Third and Almond Sln-ets. The woman is thought to be mortally wounded, and Guion in turn was so badly !eaten by thebar-keeper and others in the house that his condition is regarded as critical. On the looming of the 4th. Hon. Henry Overstolz, by his attorneys, served on Mayor Brit ton notii-e of contest for the position of Chief Executive of the city. A Cannibalistic Horror. A special dispatch from Boston to the Chicago Tribune says: A year aro last February the bark Jewess, of Boston, sailed from New South Wales in the direction of the Auk-land Islands, a group which lies in the South Pacific Ocean, near New Zealand. A few days later the Boston bark Delia M. Long "and an English bark, name unknown, followed on the same course. Nil ti.Iin.rj nf the two IltlSton VCSScls were received in this city till recently, when Captain Bremer," of Biddeford, Me., of the bark Marathon, New York, returning from a voyage 'around the world, brought back a terrible story in regard to them. At one of the ports ai which he stopped he had fallen in w;ith a sailor, or some one who knew him, who purported to lie the sole survivor of the three crews. The vessels, he said, had become becalmed in the vicinity of the Aukland Islands, and laid there together several days. They were boarded at night by cannibals, who came in large numbers, overpowered the crews, plundered the ships and scuttled them. The men were earned prisoners to iut-shore, and furnished food for the horrible feast of their captors. Xo particulars of the fight or of the survivor's escape were obtained, but the facts are pretty well authenticated, and the long absence of the vessels furnishes good ground for lielieving that the story may le true. The survivor was one of the crew of the Jewess, and he is said to have related that the surprise was complete, the vessels being some distance from land, and no signs of enemies having liecn seen. The usual precaution taken when a ship is becalmed in the vicinity of land inhabited by savages is to drive sharp "nails, placed closely together, through boards, which are placed over the decks, and .fastened firmly down, leaving the sharp iron points sticking up. It is then impossible for the barefooted savage to step upon the deck, and they are shot off at leisure. This precaution was not taken on lioard the Jewess, the survivor said, liecause no danger was suspected. It is understood that no ship of the I'nited States Navy is now stationed in the South Seas, or within reasonable distance of the vicinity where the terrible tragedy is credited as having been enacted. The Jewess was nearly iiOO tons burden. Captain Mayo, of Chelsea, was the managing owner; and Mark Uoogina, of East Boston, Caleb Katun, ami Frank Lane were part owners. Frank Lewis, of East Boston, was one of the mates on the three vessels. There were probably thirty men, but the names of any cannot be ascertained, most of them having been shipped iu foreign ports. Time will probably bring t light fuller particulars of their horrible fate. A Well-Tested Title to Real Estate. Divesting the story, as told in the Aim riaitt Low h'rririr, as far as possible of technicalities, it is briefly this: Fifteen years ago, Mr. William Inga'.Is owned a piece of properly in that part of Boston which has since been ravaged by the great fire. His father had left this property to him by will, his mother having a life interest in it till her death iu 1815. The will also contained two legacies of .2.,inio each to the nephews, named Jones, of the elder I ngu Is; but before his death he lost all his property except the real estate, and the legacies were not paid. There is no limit as to the time in which au action can be brought in Massachusetts to recover a legacy; a faint the year lSo'J the brothers Jones began suit for theirs, and two years afterward recovered the amount, with interest; a total of a'llJ.WO. The Ingalls real estate was sold to meet this claim, producing not quite enough, by .stinn; antl the brothers Jones 'nought it as a good investment for their legacy. Mr. Ingalls's inheritance thm liecame less tliau nothing. The ground of the decision was that as his father's will gave him exactly what he would have got if there had liecn no will, the devise to him was void and he took title by descent; but the legacies being a valid devise, took precedence. Scarcely had the Joneses stepped into their property before John kogers fa'gan suit for it. He showed that in 17."0 an owner o " the property had willed it to his brother, "if he shall die without issue." That brother had a daughter, and she left the estate by will in 171H) to her daughter, who sold it to the elder Ingalls. But the daughter who left it by will had not in law the right to do so. The will of 1 Tot', containing the phrase above quoted, was meant to give the estate to the heirs at law. The daughter to whom the pr-perty had been willed in 17W was not the heir; IVicr Kogers was. His son. John Kogers, sued forthe estate and recovered it in lsi"." from the brothers Jones. Then a young lawyer went to studying the case. He went back of 1 T.V to ltlOand found that the property hail then passed by a deed which conveyed the land to one Johnson : but the document did not say, as is usual, "to his heirs." CntPsequenlly, when Johnson died, the estate reverted to the man who sold it to hiin, or rather, to his heirs. These heirs were fount! ; a real estate operator in Boston supplied the funds for the suit, bought off the heirs for a trifle, won the case, and gained possession. When the tire swept over the property he bought a lot alongside, antl erected on both lots large, deep, substantial stores. ( Meanwhile Mr. Ingalls, the lirst of the list of ovvuers, had been studying the title to his lost properly in records of a yet earlier date. He 'found that iu lt'ifiii'it had been willed on the condition that a certain portion of it should never be built upon. This condition had been violated in rebuilding after the fire. Stranger still, Mr. Ingalls found that the testator of ltioO was his ancestor. ami that he (Ingalls) was the direct heir. He brought suit against the real estate operator. The latter, it is said, consulted me spirits anil was auviscn to compromise on the fa-st terms attaina ble. Mr. Ingalls received uacK ins property in the ground and gave a inort gage for the building, finding himself on the whole a much richer man than at first. The mortgage wa subsequently transferred and Mr. Ingalls's title again thoroughly searched anil pri-nounecd perfect." In the long list of transfers of real estate which appear every day in our columns, how many of the titles would stand a test of equal severity ? A Snake Bvn Discovered Near Bon liar bor-300 Slanghtered. While out hunting on last Tuesday, Mr. Kichard Ives discovered a large cave in the side of a hill under a rock, and while opposite heard the squealing of pigs inside. He stepped close to the mouth of the cave to investigate the matter, and to his horror saw protruding the head of an immense rattlesnake, with a pig in its mouth. The pig was about four months old, and weighed about seventy-five pounds. He summoned a number of his neighlors, with guns and pitchforks, w ho built a large fire in the mouth of the cave in order to drive the snakes out. In alout an hour they commenced pouring out over the burning coals. As they approached in sight the parties fired upon them from 1 ton of the cliff. They continued to pour out until the surrounding woods for twenty yards square was nieranv covered with dead and live snakes. Thev killed 310, but many made their escape. I he largest one killed a man was ten feet long, ami measureu around the body one and a half feet ; thi next laro-est a female was seven feet long, and measured one" foot around the body. J he largest snakes nave been preserved in alcohol, and will be ovhiKiiion t nr Fair free of charge. The snntA referred to had 110 rattles. The cave was literally tilled with the heads and bones of sheep, pigs, etc., which had been captured from the surrounding country. Ford's Southern (Krf.) SAichl. A man named Milton Leonard, from Stafford, Conn., blew his gas out at the Belmont House, Boston, arid in the morning was found dead. AFTER THE FIRE. Krrnr In Virginia City-How thr People l.ire-.o t r flag Over KpUt JIUk. From Uie Virginia Chronicle, Oct. !S. Virginia feels in better spirits to-day. Kuinetl walls, smoking heaps of debris, piles of gnarled iron and small mountains of broken brick are becoming familiar to the eye, and the man who yesterday had to stop and scratch his head ere he could pick out a street from among the ruined waste, trots about today with an air of familiarity and increased cheerfulness. F'very body seems to make it a point of honor to be as cheerful as possible. Virginia has evidently a large share of the Mark Tap-ley spirit, and is determined to come out strong under adverse circumstances. The amount of jollity developed by thousands of men who have lost their all, is astounding. The universality of the destruction of property, without doubt, makes it easier to bear. It may not be generous in Smith to bear the loss of his house better because Jones' residence is in ashes, but that Smith does take comfort in the loss of his 'nefghbor.s non thtTle? trne." Men ate ashamed to complain when they know that every one about them is in as sad a plight as'theniselves. In the midst of ashes, therefore, Virginia is cheerful, ami instead of crying over spilt milk is bravely setting about to build up again what the fire has laid waste. The energy of the business men of the city is extraordinary. Before the wrecks of 4 heir three and four-story brick buildings are done smoking they have set small armies of laborer? at work to clear away the rubbish and run up temporary shanties. Stuck up within a few feet of red-hot, smoldering piles of debris are little written notices informing the public that Si-and-so Company are not by any means dead yet, and will resume business in a day or two. Others, still more enterprising, have hail lumber hauled to the ground, and are, with all dispatch, erecting frame buildings and preparing to liegin business again at the earliest possible moment. On C Street, the Lafayette Market ran np ashed yesterday, and last night and to-day have Im-cii doing a rushing business in chops and steaks. The "Snug" saloon has reopened in a little corner of this shanty, and over a bar, formed of two rough boards, dispenses whisky to the Virginia sufferers at the generous tariff of one bit jht drink. HOW THE TEOl'LE LIVK. The restaurants are doing a rushing trade, and in those of the rawbonc variety the improvement in the class of customers proves that the fire, while leveling brick and stone, did equally effective work on the social lines. Gas leing one of the departed luxuries, candles in elegant sticks composed of small blocks of wood and three nails, graced the tables of the eating houses; waiters saucy antl excited, and the importance of the proprietors can only be equaled by the dignity of a special policeman. Homeless people who on the night before had camped on the hillsides, in the old tunnels, and bivouacked behind bowlders and piles of sage brush, devoted the hours yesterday toa search for more comfortable quarters, and generally succeeded. To the credit of human nature it may be set down that not a single instance is known where the doors of those who escaped ruin have been closed against the homeless. Every house in town is a sort of barrack. The spare beds are all double loaded, of course, and half the population sleep on shake downs, eat where thev can, and keep up an amazing cheerfulness. Yesterday toward sundown a cold west wind sprang up, which presently brought rain. After dark the rain changed to snow, and it seemed as if heaven were determined to send its whole list of afflictions upon the suffering city in a lump. The few saloons remaining of the prosperous hundreds of Monday, did a tremendous business. Mixed drinks were generally barred, as the press of custom allowed no time for such compilations, and the Virginia sufferers had to content themselves with uncompromising straights. VIKI'.IM.V VMr.K MARTIAL LAW. The sufferers were deprived of even their whisky after S o'clock, for at that hour (Sen. John B. Winters detailed squads of men, who marched about the streets peremptorily closing all the saloons. This inovej though rather summary, was a good one. A great many men' had taken more liquor than was good for them, and lights were Incoming too frequent for the com fort of sober citizens. The military took entirecharge of the town and preserved jiropert3-from thieves, who were numerous, and during the tlay carried off a good ileal of property from the sites of burned buildings. Strollers along the devasted streets found bayonets confronting them at the intst unexpected points, and were forced to turn back. Although the street lamps have gone the way of nearly every thing capable of combustion, the glare of the burning heaps of rubbish, blazing vigorously all over the town, furnished plenty of light for the soldiers to patrol the streets and drive off all interlopers. Beside protecting damaged property from dishonest persons, the military hail a good deal of work to keep heedless people out of danger. C Street is lined with toppling walls and chimneys, which now and again come down with a crash and pri-duce a small earthquake. The night was very cold. A hard frost set in when the snow ceased. This morning ice a quarter of an inch in thickness formed on the pools of water in the streets. Among the ruins at various points, par-tics of men had rigged up stoves, and by sunrise were clustering around their tires, ciwking their breakfasts and warming their chilled bodies. High banks were in request for shelter, as a strong, frosty wind came bowling over the snow capped mountains from the west. Couldn't Play It. A colored man named Nelson is owing a butcher on Beaubien Street five or six dollars, and after trying in vain to collect the money the butcher and a friend put their heails together the other night and laid a plan. About midnight they called at Nelson's house, and he was awakened by a rap on the window. Who's dar?" he called out. "The Devil!" solemnly remarked the butcher. "You is, hey?" "Yes. I want you!" "What fur?" "You refuse to pay your butcher, and I am sent to take you to the bot- f.,,.t..i nit'"' "You is?" "I am! Come forth at once!" " Ize coming!" replied the negro as he jumped out of bed ; " 1 can't pay that six dollars half as easy in any odder way. an' de old woman is so miglitv cross Ize glad to get away from home!" The butcher and his friend didn't wait for Mr. Nelson to corne out. De- tvril Free Press. PITH AXD P0LYT. The amount of patience which we bring to bear on babies depends very much on whether or not we have babies of our own. . " Ue was milking the river and fell in" is the JUx;lipstzr Democrat's explanation of the death by drowning of a milkman a few days - shrre. See the pint? A handsome youth, being questioned by a rather stylish lady as to his occupation, replied that he was an "adjuster of movable alphabets." He was simply a printer. " What kind of a man is Squire Simmons any way?" "Well, you've seen them snow storms along early in winter, when there's a good deal of wind and not much sleighing? . That's the sort he is." The other day when a resident of First Street went home to dinner his wife asked him why he sent a stranger to the house after his Sunday suit. " I didn't," he bluntly replied. " 44 Bu a ytmng man called and said soad 1 5Mhirn the clothes' jJie; anitb hw a pc.in-ful pause, ainl,shtf..continii4Ja "Yon can't blanr nie." . A -No, can't," he replied, ' "bui I wish yon a"iiL J knew enough to hist' fts' oVf r4 higuT.' She didut eat any dinner, ..of coarse. Dc-Uoil Free Press. A Vicksbckg negro applied to a citi zen the other day for a little advice, asking: " Mr. Thompson, would you lend Cuff Jones $40 if you was me?" "Well, what security can he offer?" A mortgnlge." " A mortgage ? W hv. what has he got to mortgage ?" ' Dat's what bodders me, Mr. Thompson. I knows he don't own nnflin but de duds on his back." " Well then, how can he give you a mortgage?" "Dat s de reshun, Jlr. Thompson. NoJe. it, and I'se made np my mind iitthe- cant have dc money unless he gives me his note of hand" Vicksburg Herald. As Atlanta youth gotten np in the latest style, left a West End car and tripped across to a house where a little boy was sitting on the front steps, whit tling with a new Barlow knife. The boy looked up and said : 44 1 say, young man, ver don 't want ter be coming around here any more, yer don t! . "Why, Charlie, what's the matter?" "'Cause there's a feller that wears ja . diamond bres-pin and rides in his own horse-and buggy a comin' here to see f Sis now, and a fellow like you, what has tcr rule 'round in a bob-tail street-kyr . hain't got no show, 'cept to take a front" seat on the back fence and watch, 'em lixiu' things fur the weddin'!" .The ' young man turned away looking likei--. sweet-potato vine alter a macs irwi. Constitution. - A Dael to the Death. A Xew York dispatch to the Chicago Tribune gives the following particulars regarding a recent tragic event in that city: A terrible duel with pistols was fought in a small room in a tenement house at No. 10G Delancy Street, in this city, on Tuesday afternoon. The fight grew out of a personal quarrel on a matter of business, and the contestants, josepn Goldman and David Jaroslow by name, were both Hebrews, and natives of Russian Poland, and had been partners in manufacturing jewelry at No. a'J tast Broadway for about two years. Ke- cently bnsiness had not been very re munerative, and Jaroslow oecame suspicious of his partner, and liegan keeping a separate account of his transac tions. Ihis account connrmea nis sus picions, and the partners had a disa greement, resulting in a dissolution of the firm m August last, ine money which Jaroslow had invested was gone, and he found himself almost penniless. He, however, formed a partnership with another jeweler and liegan business anew. Goldman resented the suspicions east upon him, and was accustomed to speak reproachfully to his former partner, and to mention him with bitter terms in conversation with others. Goldman resided at No. P0 Hester Street, and Jaroslow at No. l'.l Essex Street. On Monday night Goldman met Jaroslow at the Atlantic Garden, in the Bowery, and asked him to take a glass of beer. After drinking several times, (Soldman went to the resi dence of a friend, Daniel Pearison, at No. 10 Delaney Street, bade Jaroslow good night. Goldman slept that nio-ht -with IVarison. ami ft The morn ing complainerr'of hrdc!l? Pearison went awav to his work about o'clock, leaving Goldman in bed, and did not return until after the shooting, almut niKin. On Tuesday Goldman called at No. 19 Essex Street to see Jaroslow, and asked him to pay him 1.2 which he said Jaroslow owed him. Jaroslow replied that he had not the change with him, but could pay it some other time. (Soldman then, after some further con versation, went away, and soon after sent a message to Jaroslow that a lady friend of his wished to see.him at No. 16 lVlaney Street, before leaving the city. Jaroslow immediately went to the house, went np to the room of Peari son, on the fourth floor, where (old- man was. Miss Josephine Heidman, living in the same house, on the third lloor. back room, reports that, alKHit 4 o'clix'k in the afternoon she heard eight pistol-shots fired in rapid succession, followed by the noise of something falling. Being very much frightened, she ran to the Tenth Precinct Station-house on Flldridge Street and gave an alarm. Officer Henken went with her immedi ately to the house and ascended to the top floor, but all was .then still. The officer knocked at the door of Peari- son's room where the two men were, but received-no reply, and then broke oen the door with a hatchet. A terrible sight was before him. Goldman was lying on the floor dead, with a pistol clenched in his hand, and Jaroslow .... a i l I I- was half sitting antl nan snreiin-, proptMHl against the door, living but in sensible. A partly discharged pistol re mained in his band. Both men were shot through the head, and the marks of other shots were fonnd in the walls of the room. The room was not larger than 10 by 15 feet in dimensions, and the encounter had evidently been entered upon with deadly intentions. The pistols were seven chambered revolvers, out of which four chambers of one and three of the other were emptied. An nml.nl.ince was telegraphed for, and Jaroslow was taken to Bellevue Ibspi- tal, but died in the amouiance wmie on hi9 way to the hospital. The friends of (Soldman claim that Jaroslow shot him and then committed suicide. No foundation for such a claim is known, and . the fact that each man was found with a pistol in his hand contradicts the sup position. A Horrible Death. Yesterday morning abont 9 o'clock, J:kmis Or. W f IU. t Jllly vji mond's paper mill, met a horrible and sudden death. The unfortunate man on an apron tied with bagging ctnnm: II0 HTM Wirtinl tlV OTIP III 11 IS companions of the danger in wearing it not ten minutes oeiore ine acciueni. It is supposed tnat tne string got en- tan igled with the main shaft, and urew a to it ere he was conscious of his him peril. 'With lightning-like rapidity the shaft whipped turn round ami romio, until his body was wound round the shaft and his brains beat out against the ground. There were six or seven men working withm .1' : , full sigSt, but so quickly was the sau work accomplished that he had no time to utter a single err. Ue leaves a wife, but no children. His parents reside at Kome. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.

POETRY. THE UKREMEMBEPED MOTHER. Unknown, beloved, thon whose shadow lies Across Mr sunny threnhoM of my years; Vhnm mpmorv m-itli pntr.rMlinv v.a Se-k thro' the past, but cannot find for tears ; i : . i . . . . . . . .., .... iiuw miter is uie wougm, man, my cinia, Remember not the touch. Uie tone. Wbich mxle my young life thrill that I alone corpei uie tare mat o'er my cradle smil'd! And y. 1 1 know that if a. sujltlen lipht Berealed thy living likeitau, I should find That my poor heart hath mrtuWd Uiee aright. That hiiles thee from me, till I know by sight iae penect xace thro' love on carta imu-i. Catholic World fur October. FAITHLESS. I wonder if it seems as long Tovou; three years have passed, or more, 6inre. loath toci'ieak the linsl word. We parted at the vine-wreathed door. The gracelul gesiure of your hand. Your wistful eyes, I see thorn yet. And hear from out those pleading lips. The whispered mandate, "Don't forget." Ah. was it that yonr faith in me Was weak, or" that mv thoughts you read. And guessed the plot my brain conceived, KUtck as the heavens overhead ': Faet fell the rain ; the pall id moon Was hidden by the tempest's rack. "Adieu!" you cried; 'now dont forget To bring our best umbrella back !" Scrittner for Xortmher. MISCELLAXY. A MODEL BOY. The first time I saw Tipo lie was lying u Uie wall of the public garden in Venice, fishing with a pin-hook. He apparently consisted of two brown bare legs and a thing of shreds and patches called trousers. The rest of him was hanging over the lagoon. " Halloo, young man," said I ; " stay where you ar a minute. I want to make a sketch of you." lie lifted his head and showed me one of those delicious child-faces that belong only to Pa Vinci's angels. Two great innocent brown eyes looked frankly and steadily into mine. The mouth wore that sweet shadowy smile which Leonardo cast over the life of all his women and children. I extended my hand. The young fish-ernim dropped his pin-hook and laid his dingy Tittle paw therein. "This is more than mere circumstance," I said ; "this is an affinity. I will take this child unto my heart and adopt him while I stay in Venice. I am a poor and lonely Bohemian ; this delightful lxy is also a Bohemian, judging from his clothes. Let us be beggars and happy together." 1 elided by proposing that he should share my humble home ond fortunes, provided his mother would let him, clean brushes, go of errands, amuse the dogs, make himself generally useful, and ;o.o for me by the hour. "I will," he cried, tumbling off the wall. "Come along, Illustrissimo." So we went home to the dull abode of poverty. I introduced 1'ipo to the World, Sin, and the Flesh. Don't tremble in your virtuous shoes. They were only my dogs poor outcast curs that drifted with the tide in the lagoon to my door. They were lean, hungry-eyed creatures, always on the alert for blows and kicks. What better friends could an unrecognized artist have than three drowning, starving, miserable dogs? They were four-footed epigrams against fortune. It was too late to begin work that day; I could only form high hopes of 1'ipo on canvas. " We partook of a frugal repast. Fipo was initiated into the use of the fork. Then I offered for his consideration the first of a series of lec tures on the manly art of washing plaU-s J Hitherto the dogs had neatly polished them, and I had merely touched them J up with the towel. 11ns is the poetry of the artist's life. And yet, now that I have made me a name, now that friends and honor and fame are mine, I long with a wistful sadness for those dear old days in far-off Venice. Something I have lost which then made life glorious. If I could only step out into my loggia at sunset, after a hard day's work, and hear in the rustle of the trees in the garden, in the roar of the surf at the Lido, in the veser bell sweeping over the lagoon, "The world is an infinite possibility. Go forth in the might of thy genius and youth and conquer the realm." I painted Fipo just as he was, in his rags and his dirt and his angelic imp-ishness. I wanted to paint him semi-nude, for the sake of that ripe golden skin of his. But I felt that my picture was destined for American eyes and I merely enlarged the holes in his garments.Fipo began to manifest an alarming fondness for brushes and colors. " Is it possible that I may prove the Cima-bue to this Giotto?""l queried. "Giotto tended sheep and Fipo fished with a pin-hook. Botterthat he should dredge mud from Venetian canals all his life. He shall never wield the brush with my consent." This m nlel bov of mine had one vice which all my efforts could not uproot from his youthful breast. He had the face of an angel, but he used language that would have brought a blush to the cheeks of a shipload of pirates. l'i)o soon settled to his own satisfaction that when I went to America he was to go likewise. I encouraged the idea from educational motives. " Fipo, how long is ft since you washed your face?" Fipo counted his fingers. " A week." "Well, when you go to America, Fipo, my boy, you'll have to wash your face every day, and your hands too, for there, my Venetian aristocrat, the people have a plebeian prejudice in favor of cleanliness." Fipo went off, and rcturning,said, with a confidential smile, "Me clean now; me go to America." Fipo came to me shortly after and with a graceful bow offered me a cigarette from a package in which he had iust invested. It was Saturday; our week's work was done ; we had squared accounts, and Fipo felt like a millionaire.I accepted and lighted it. "Look here, vounir man. when you go to Amer ica you'll have to give up the use of the weed, in the land ot tne irec, ana so forth, my friend, little boys of eight are not expected to be mute as far ad vanced in dissipation as old fellows of twenty." Thus did I administer moral instruc tion in small doses to my untutored sav age. Things began to look black in the lit tle old house on the lagoon. Fipo and I had been subsisting for some time on shipwreck rations. Never a foot cross ed mv humble threshold with intent to order pictures. Robinson Crusoe and Friday were not more entirely alone on the island than were Tipo and I there : l. .aiAi..1viiiiil rmtti rro with nnlv ju 1 11 .11 naici'uuuuu - j our own bright dreams and the prophet ic dory of sea and sky to keen us from utter wretchedness. I was up to the ears in debt with Fipo at this time. But he understood my position and did not dun me. He was a dear good fellow, this Fipo of mine, and would rather have gone cigarettelesstothc end of his days than have brought me face to face with insolvency by asking for centimes " I am poor, Fipo," I said, at last, openly and calmly; "poor as a church mouse or an artist." "I'll tell you something, padrone mio, that will bring you good luck," an swered Fipo, looking at me with his great earnest eyes. " What is it?" "You see, me want two cents me 1.!1V." I collected the required amount wjth Devoted to Politics, Literature, News, Agriculture, Science, Wit, Humor, and Home Interests. VOLUME IV. CALIFORNIA, MISSOURI, X0VEM15EII 11, 1875. iUMI5J7T" I i i . - some difficulty and cautioned Fipo to be careful how he laid it out. He came back with a small cage in his hand, containing three great black crickets. " They liringyou gixnl luck, padrone. Every body in Venice keeps them in the spring." " Well, I haven't much faith in them myself, not In-ing a child of the South, sunken in superstition and slavery, but we will hang them over the fireplace and see what turns up." The crickets sang on bravely for a week and did their best to bring me good fortune, I have no doubt, poor beasts, line morning I took down the cage, and behold there were only two legless torsos of crickets. 1 heir ampu tated limbs lay about the floor of the cage in expressive confusion. The third had emigrated. Later I found linn half cremated Iwhind the fireplace. " Fipo," I said mournfully, " vour crickets are a delusion and a snare." One morning, not long after, I was painting as usual, and Fipo was posing patiently before me. Suddenly there came a loud ring at tne door, vt hat could it be? Creditors I had none and visitors never. The dogs began to howl. I looked at myself. 1 wore a coat with fifty-two patches; I told Fipo to keep his attitude. I put on a bold face, and, bv way of encouragement, composed as 1 went to the door a new paragraph for my future biography in the " Lives of distinguished American Artists :" " It is related of him that even at this early stage of his career he had such confi dence in the might and power of his genius that he didnot hesitate to answer his own door-bell in a ragged coat." A white-haired gentleman stepped into the hall. The ilogs swarmed over him at once. 44 1 have been told there was an artist living here," he said, looking about him. "Down, my dears, down, I beg of you." 1 am the artist, or at least L try to be one." 1 thought his face looked familar. I remembered then who he was. The winter I was in Home I heard a gixul deal about him a benevolent old fellow who huuted out poor artists and helped them on. He had had a son mad after art, and refused to let him study. The boy ran away from home, came to Europe, painted awhile, gave hope of a brilliant career, and then tailing ill died of sheer poverty and nothing else. Aud so the father did what little he could to atone for his fault. Oh, I remembered him well. I ushered him into the studio. "That's a very nice little boy," he said, patting Fipo's shaven pate. "Does he go to school?" " He does not. He revels in ignorance and smokes." 44 Ah, I see you are painting; his portrait a young fisherman. Beautiful thing! Is it ordered?" I forced a pallid smile. "Orders are not plentiful in this establishment. I am' painting entirely for glory at present." t ' Then-would you allow me to secure it for a friend at home who is making a collection of native art? Could you finish it by the end of the month? And I know that artists mast have brushes and colors. I should like to leave an installment, if you will permit me." He laid a purse on the table. 44 Never mind thanks; I had a son once myself. Come up anil see me at the hotel." With his dear old face all aglow with kindness he started for the door. He waved me good-by with his umbrella. "Conic up and see me and we'll talk it all over." 44 CAine to my arms, O most blessed of Fipos. It's all through you and your crickets!" Who says that ravens no longer minister to the needs of hungry prophets? Who says that angels wtlk not abroad in human guise? The dogs barked for delight, and Fipo and I danced a jig for joy. From that day onward life prosiered amain. Friends gathered about, my orders assaulted me on every side, aud I exchanged the picturesque poverty of the house on the lagoon for the sumptu-" ous hall of a palace on the Grand Canal. Fipo staved with me until I left enice. He pleaded hard to be taken to America, but I felt that there he would le misun derstood. His innocent fondness forthe weed would be labeled 44 Juvenile de pravity;" his poetic raggedness would ie accounted squalor. So I left lnm in that beautiful city. where the marble domes rise from the wrter like great white lilies, and the boats dance over tne sea like scarlet- winged birds. There, where life is all ne golden afternoon, I left niy Fipo, We had borne joy and sorrow together and the parting was hard. Arid wherever I o I carry alout with me the memory of two innocent child-eves which finds its way continually on to my canvas And when I hear the critics say, 44 How much this face reminds me of Da inci. I laugh half wistfully, and think of the tender clnld-moutli mat smiteii up at me from the garden wall that lonely summer evening in far-off enice. Circumstances Alter Cases. The other day. while a Vicksbnrger was riding toward Jackson in his bug- T. he saw a long-haired joung man sitting on a roadside fence. There was such an air of utter desolation about the countryman that the Vicksburger drew rein and inquired : 44 For God's sake! what ails you, young man?" "Nothing, for God's sake!" was the meek reply. 44 lsut is anv one aeaar "Hain't heard of any body but old Matthews, and he went off two months ago." 44 Arc you sick?" 44 1 Uh'A kinder bad." 44 Well, vou look bad. In fact, you r the worst-iooKinsr vouim uiau x ic . , , ii seen since the close of the war." "I was all right till a month ago, said the voung man looking still more solemn. 44 What happened then?" 44 Woman went back on me!" 44 Did, eh? Were vou engaged?" 44 I'd hung around there for a year or so, and we'd hHgged and loved and hooked fingers. If that isn't being en gaged, then I don't know." 44 And she backed out?" 44 Yes." 44 Well, I've been through the mill myself' I had a woman go back on me in that way three months ago, and did not lose a bit of sleep over it. 44 You didn't?" 44 No. sir." 44 But. then." sighed the young man as he hitched along on the rail, 44 the woman you loved didn't own sixteen mules, and have a clean hundred bales of cotton to sell ! " V tcksburg ucraia, Willie was disputing with his sister. 44 It is true." he said firmly, 44 for moth er says so, and, if she says so, it is so, if it am t so," CALIFORNIA NEWS SUMMAKY. PKltSOTIL Al POLITICAL. A Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 31st nit. pivesa scmi-authoritativc expression of the President's views in reference to Cultan affairs, as emlHidicd in recent instructions t Minister dishing. 4 'The President," says the dispatch, "regards the civil dissensions in Cuba, amies-IH-vially the sanguinary hostilities, as producing effects in the I'nited States second in gravity only to those which they produce in Spain The continuance of the Insurrection prows day by day more insupportable by the I'nited Stales, aud while the attention of this tiovernuiciit is fixed on Cuba in the interest of humanity by the horrors of civil war prevailing there, it cannot forlicar to regret that the existence of slave lalK.r in Cuba, and its Influence ovcrthc feelings and interests of peninsular Spaniards, lie at the foundation of all the calamities which now afflict the island The question, what decision the I'nited States shall make, is a serious and dillicult one, not to Ik- determined without the careful consideration of its complex dements of domestic and foreign policy, but the determination of which mar at any moment In: forced upon us by occurrences either in Spain or Cuba. The President cannot but regard independence and emancipation, of course, as the only certain and even the necessary solution of the question of Cuba, and in his mind all incidental quest ions are quite subordinate to the larger objects of the I'nited States in this respect. The President does not meditate or desire the annexation of Cuba to the I'nited States, but its elevation into an in-dcH'iidcnt republic of freemen, in harmony with ourselves and with the other republics of America. The policy of the I'nited States in reference to Cuba at the present time is declared to be one of expectancy, but with positie and fixed conviction as to the duty of the I'nited States when the time for energy of action shall arrive." In connection with.the above is the following significant information, telegraphed on the same date: "Ihiringthetroublesgrow-ing out of the capture of the Virgiuitis by the Spanish man-of-war Tornado, our iov-crnuieut suffered great inconvenience on account of the very weak condition of our Xavy, but since ..that the Department has been doing all in its power with the limited means at its disjiosal to put the Xavy iu pood condition so that we may be ready for any emergency. The ironclads, Moutauk,:Manhattan, Saugus, M.tlin-pac, Nantucket, Ajax, Canonicus, Catskill, Jason. Dictator and others, are in sea-going condition, and should occasion require, they could be put into sen ice in five days. The new sloops of war. Alert, Alliance, Essex. Hanger, Adams, .Trenton, Huron and Enterprise, will soon lie ready for s a, aud most of them will be in service In-fore the end of the year." Mayor Otis, of San Francisco, died on the 'h ult. Hon. Amasa Walker, of Massachusetts, died on the iKith ult.. aged Tii. Mr. Walker was a well-known writer on political economy, member of Congress in isty and Ink!. Secretary of State of Massachusetts in l.s.11 and 1ST.2, and father of V. A. Walker, Superintendent of the I'nited states Census. An adjourned session o" the Arkansas General Assembly commenced on the 1st. On Tuesday, Nov. 2. election for State officers were held ill Massachusetts, New ork. Pennsylvania, Maryland. Wisconsin. and Minnesota; for Congressmen andineiu-fa-rs of the State Legislature ill Mississippi; foreoiintv officers and members of the state Ij-irislature in New Jersey. Kanas ami Vir- inia : and for county aud municipal nllii-crs u Illinois. The result of the elections is as flows: The lb-publicans are successful in Massachusetts, Xew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the Demo- rats in Xew York. Maryland. Virginia and Mississippi. The Democrats probably elect their c-andidate for State Treasurer in Wis- ousin. In Chicago. Hiiek, lb publican anitidate lor ounty I reasiirer. is t-iccti-ii. In Xew York City the Tammany candidates were nearly all dclcatcd. Alexander Lewis (Dcin.) has been elected Mavor of Detroit. iovenioi tiarland's message to the Arkau-;is Legislature recommends the passage of a bill in reference to the landed interests of the State; an aipropriat ion for the Centen nial, and the creation of a bureau of immi- ration, mining and agriculture. He also recommends that no general legislation be ntered upon during the present (adjotirn-d) session. Judge Treat, of the I'nited States Circuit Court at St. Louis, has appointed 1 hos. 1 . Ilulklev, of Xew Yolk, Oliver (iarrison, of t. Louis, and James II. Keach. of St. Louis, llei'civers for the Atlantic ami Pa cific Kailroad Company. The Arkansas Legislature has adopted a memorial to Congress asking that the Indian country fa' piveii a Territorial government.Augustus S. Caylord. of Saginaw City, Mich., has been appointed Assistant Attor ney - ieiieral for the Iuterior Department rir Wm. H. Smith, resigned. Hon. Thomas A. Jeiickes, of Rhode Is land, died on the 4th. It was reported on the oth-that a dead lock existed in the Indian Xational Council at Tahlciiuah. growing out of the official canvass ot the vote lor 1 liu-I ol Ilie gallon. which threatened to terminate in bl'Kidshed between the adherents of the rival candi dates, Ross and Thompson, faith of whom claim to have been legally elected Mm. Francis D. Moullon having leen summoned to appear fa-fore Plymouth Church, 15rook!yn, and show cause why her name should not be dropped from the roll of Membership on the ground of continued absence from services, on the evening of thr 4th appeared with Koger A. Prvor as her counsel, who read a protest signed by her, stating that her absence was an enforced one, caused by the crime of adultery committed by llcnrv Ward Uecch er, pastor of the church, with one of his parishioners, which she knew to be true through the confessions of both Mr. Beeehei and Mrs. Tilton to her. Her name, and also that of Deacon West, was ordered stricken from the roll. The Republicans at the National Capital on the evening of the Vth. celebrated their party victories in the recent State elections LV procession man lied to the Executive Man moii, where the I'resident addressed the as semblage as follows Gentlemen : I am Terr slad to meet von on this occasion anil to conicralulaU you on no rood a eaute for rejoicing to the entire country over the elections of iai mesuav. nue uie itcpun lican majorities were rot axrat. Uiey were suffi ricnt to accomplish the purpose. The"raR-itai.c-M has lMninLinlv fcutiiire&Bcd. and Uie neo- ple now know what lon! of money they are to h.n in the future, and I mm tnat vvc nave an assurance that the Republican will control this Government for at least lour years loncer. The Congn'Mtional ministers of Xew 1 ork and Brooklyn have appointed the followin committee to investigate the charges against the Rev. Ilenry Ward Beecher and report to the Congregational Association as to his fitness as a fellow-member: Kev. m. m. Tavlor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, New- York; Rev. Dr. Wm. Ives Budington. of Clinton Avenue Church. Brooklyn; Kev Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the Xew York Theological Seminary; and Rev. Charles Li Everest, of the Church of the Puritans Brooklyn. The investigation will be thor ough, and will Iegin with a careful t-crutiny the trial, after w hich new evidence will le sought. The meetings of the committee will fa in private, but the verdii-t will be published. The I'resident has ap)oiiiteil John B. Raymond Postmaster at Vicksburg, Miss., in place of Ilenry R. Pease, suspended under the teuiire-of-officc act. The Wyoming Legislature met and organized at Cheyenne on the 5th. OOMMEKCE A!tD I.It STRT. Oold closed in Xew York, on XovcinberC, at H.V. . The latest information from Virginia City is to t he effect t hat t he bu rut d ist rict is al ready dotted with shanties. Work is plenty and wages high, and the people are recovering their spirits. Relief is coining in freely, and no more aid is needed. The Xational (lold Bank and Trust Com-. pany of San Francisco suspended paynie on the 1st. This bank has been consM-' . weak sfnee the failure of the Bank of jlf foruia. and has managed to keep going mLf by paying small demands and securing extension on large ones. The olhcent elai that the v can ultimately meet all their In debtedllcss The October statement of the National debt shows a decrease during the month of sl,0(Zi.til."; currency balance, $i,7:Ui.i;71: coin balance. $7.".7s:S.4:l'.': deposits of legal tenders for redemption of certificates of de-lisit. ?."(),ssji.inio; coin certifii-jtcs, IHi.".100. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a rail for the redemption of .fT,nrt,uiN) of coupon and $."i.iMKi,000 of registered bonds, total 10. 000, OdO of the .VJO bonds of ISttt. The Sccrctnry of the Treasury has addressed a circular to the Collectors of Customs, announcing that no importations of meat, cattle or hides will fa- allowed from Kiigland from this date (Xov. .1). in consequence of the prevalence of the foot-and-mouth disease iu that country. Navigation on the Red River of the North was eloped by the ice on the 4th. SMSS.wni postal-cards were issued by the Post -office Department last month, the largest issue by at least .7!J,oiJU ever made in the same time. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that under the statutes all inventions for aging" spirits, when brought into use in bonded warehouses, according to the propositions made to the department, constitute the work of rectification and purification, and those using such processes fa-come rectifiers of spirits and subject to taxation as such. The Cubed Stales (Jralid Jury at Chicago, on the At h.. ret tinted a large number of indictments agaiiist whiky distillers, gangers and rectifiers of that city, for alleged violations of the revenue law. The Commissioner of the General Ij'iul cilice, iu his forthcoming annual report, will call attention to the fact that some of the extreme Wetrn railroads have smveeded in selling in the aggregate in:ny thouaud acres of worthless lauds to immigrants under l he representation that the soil was very productive, when they knew that the land was unlit for farming purposes. By such false representations many oi ine poor immigrants have been deceived, and they are left w ithout anv resource to recover it hack. The "ommissiotier desires that tlii matter may have the attention of Congress, so that the practice of Itnposiiiir on the poor immigrants may be broken up. CKIJIF.S CAM'AtVriF.S. While a party of six persons were boating n the Sntichaniia River, at t uadilla, X. , me noai upset, tum mi ,en .i..m- j tatetl into the water. Maurice innniricn aim his wife, of Woreesier. X. Y.. and Mr. Morehouse and his wife, of I'nadilla. were lrowncd. The tomtlriehes wen? on their wi-itiliu trip. The boiler of a locomotive on the Lchi-,'h Valley Kailroad exploded at Bound Brook, rciiit.. on the 1st. killing J hoina- Cooper. nirineer and Abraham King ami Wm. Thompson, brakemeii. .-Mid serioit-ly injur- ing :'bnit twenty olle-i-s, two of whom are itnv reported dead. In Xew York City, on the 2d, two Polish lews, named Joseph Goldman and Moses Pi-kit I, partners in the jewelry business. fought a duel with pistols in a private room. Goldman was shot over the rigid cheek and instantly killed. I'i-katt was shot over the ritrht eve and lnitrtallv wounded. The I'nited States Grand Jury at St. Louis, on the .VI. returned indictments airainst Wm. MeKee, one of the proprietors of the t;iohp.-l)pmicrnt, ami Col. Constants tic Maguire, formerly Collector of Internal Revenue, for complicity in whisky frauds. David Robinson, a farmer residing near Grct-ntown. Howard County. Intl.. on the night of the 3d inst. cut the throat of his little daughter with a razor and shot his mug stui, killing them both. He hail previously made an attempt to kill his wife and a third child, both of whom escaped from the hoiis without serious injury. Koiitnson men weni lo ko- koiiio and boarded a night freight trim, and on the following morning his dead body was found lying alongside the track near Jackson Station. It was not known whether he committed suicide or was accidentally killed bv falling from the train. Three colored children, aged respectively 10, 12, and l.t years, were bunted to death in a burning building at Washington, D. C, on the ni'.'ht of the oil. At Oxford, Miss., on the Pm1, Percy How ry, youngest son of Judge Howry, was accidentally killed while celebrating the Conservative victory iu the State. MISCELIJUVEorS. A very destructive fire occurred at Sher man, Texas, on the night of the 1st. It or- in ited in the St. Cloud Hotel, a wooden buildiiiL'. and extended on faith sides of the street as far north as the new Post-office building, which was destroyed with all its ontents. From sixty to seventy business houses were burned, and twenty-five to tliirtv families rendered homeless. Every printing-office in the place was burned. An e.-irtlion.-tke shock was felt tliroUL'lioill portions of Georgia on the night of the 1st. FOREIGN. The King and Queen of Denmark, anil their daughter, the Prim-ess Thyra, accompanied by Prince John ofSchleswig-IIol-stein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, arrived in England on the 2d. The royal party were met at Dover by the Princess of Wales and suite, and escorted to London. The distinguished visitors will remain until the beginning of Dcccmfa-r. The London Post of the 2d says the new-Texas cotton classes much fa'tter than the old, and quotations average 1-likl. higher. It t thought that Texas and New Orleans quotations will shortly be identical. A Quebec dispatch reports the drowning on the ."1st ult., during a severe gale, of 17 persons, residents of the Isle of Orleans, while returning from market. The Duke d'Audiffret-Pasquier has been elected President of the French Assembly by a combination of the Left with a portion of the Right. The act is regarded as a demonstration against the Bonapartists. Robert Von Mold, the German statesman and political economist, is dead. Ant coward can light a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. (leorge Eliot. DEMOCRAT. MISSOUM STATE NEWS. Grml Kotca. Twenty-five thousand car-loads of live stock have passed ovrr the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad since July 13. Of the $10.(1110,000 of bonds issued under the act of June 13, 1MU, lulled in for re-doniption by the C. S. Secretary of the Tfeasury, this State possesses $143.UJO in the IuMic School fund. Deputy I'. S. Marshal Xilehy lias committed John A. Joyce to the jail of Cole County. Joyce, it will lie remeiafaTed. was convicted of defrauding the Internal Revenue Department. Governor Hardin offers a reward of $200 for the apprehension of Chill ies Redferren, convicted in St. Francois County of the murder of James Christopher, in February. Boehauau County. 1 nomas Gavncy, yard-master at the St. and Council Bliills roundhouse at St. h, was run over by the cars aud in- T kiucu tut ine 4in. lie was cngageu fd!ig a switch when his foot caught be-J J"tUe rails and he was unable lo extri-M it. His remains were taken to W l-M! 1 . . AuroJ 3.J where he formerly resided. A,vIt Kfiort ou the part of cx-Gov. Woodao Of-Gqv. Willard P. Hall and Col. Switzlei M lrebase a one-third interest in the St. i&f1rGa:ttte, has proved unsuccessful, y Cape t.trartlrna County. Mr. A. G. Arkcriuan, Inspector of Material, and engaged in the improvement of the Mississippi River, was accidentally drowned near the Cape on the 2Sth tilt. Cooper County. Richards Ripley was shot twice by Charley Hudson, on thc.'ilst ult., in the western portion of this county. The ipiarrcl grew out if Ripley taking Hudson's horse without jicnnission. Datle County. Three young ladies who set fire to and burned the.M. -Milieu School-house at Greenfield about April of last spring, ami who were arraigned before Siniire lfoyt and ImiiiihI over to the October term of the Circuit Court, were brought fa-fore that ImkIv, the case being disposed of as follows: Miss Laura Willis pit ail guilty, and was sentenced to two hours in the County Jail; Miss Dora Chappcl turned State's evidence; Miss Fanny Mitchel denies the charge and her cae was continued until the next regular term of the Circuit Court. They are all three said to be fa-twee n the ages of 14 and 13. iirtrn County. At Spring;icld. on the 4th, Thomas Malli-coat was convicted in the Circuit Court of the crime against nature and sentenced to ten years in the peiiiieniiary. This is. perhaps, the first conviction under that statute ever found in the State. Howard Connty. Th unas Williamson, charged with the murderof William IVIchcr. at Fayette, five years ago, has Im-cii arrested. He has liecn iu Texas since the time of the killing. .rvvtou Connty. Tom Killiau, one of the men charged with the murder of Major Anderson, in Newton County, has been safely lodged in jail in Neosho. Il(r .County. Near Fredericksburg, on the'2Sth, a wanton attack was made by a desperado named Taekett, on the public highway, upon August Kclling. Julius Knott, SamuelCap-pi-H, Casper Kathotr. Louis Hi ggler and Ir. Koiiitky. during which the two last named were badly shot. Taekett was eventually overpowered ami taken to Herman and placed ill jail. PrtlU Connty. C. S. Rohauiioii. wife, daughter ami Mr. Redmond ami wife wen1 thrown from a wagon in Smitiiton. the evenimr of the :;ist ult. w hiie going to church. Mrs. RohaniMii fell on her head anil has liecn uin-oust-ions since the accident, and fa-licvcd fatally injured; all the others Miglitly. Four young men, Cairnt-sand Young Hal-comb, anil two brothers Brown, were arrested on the 2d. near Hoiitonia, charged with tiring into the t rains of the Lexington Branch Railway, and with placing obstructions on the track during a period running through the past two years. Another was stibsciuently arrested on a similar charge. A little son of J. R. Stewart, of Scilalia. was going to school the other morning, and got tin a wagon which was pa-sing to ride. He was thrown off. and the wheels passed over his hips and bowels, indicting seven-, if not fatal, wounds. Randolph County. A lire broke out at Moberly on the morning of the oil. destroying the Fremont House. Loss, f.'i.iNin. (aline Connty. At Col. Vincent Marniadukc's farm, near Arrow nick, on the 2d. at a sale of short-horns, there wa sold a bull-calf for 4'73. and a heifer at .!:; then :!S short-horns went off at prices ranging from .iO to -fiV'. St. LonU. A young man. aged I! years, has Wenar-n-slctl for making four separate attempts, within as many weeks, to tire a number of buildings fa-longing to W. H. Cutter, a carpenter doing business at No. 13S4 North Tenth Street. The St. Louis. Kansas City and Northern RailrtKid company ha. within a few days, given out the contract for building the ex-tciisioii of the St. Louis terminus from Ferguson Station to the Cnion depot, St. Louis. The distance is eleven miles. On the night of the 5th MonrocGuion shot Minnie KridliT. wife of the proprietor of a low dance house on the northeast corner of Third and Almond Sln-ets. The woman is thought to be mortally wounded, and Guion in turn was so badly !eaten by thebar-keeper and others in the house that his condition is regarded as critical. On the looming of the 4th. Hon. Henry Overstolz, by his attorneys, served on Mayor Brit ton notii-e of contest for the position of Chief Executive of the city. A Cannibalistic Horror. A special dispatch from Boston to the Chicago Tribune says: A year aro last February the bark Jewess, of Boston, sailed from New South Wales in the direction of the Auk-land Islands, a group which lies in the South Pacific Ocean, near New Zealand. A few days later the Boston bark Delia M. Long "and an English bark, name unknown, followed on the same course. Nil ti.Iin.rj nf the two IltlSton VCSScls were received in this city till recently, when Captain Bremer," of Biddeford, Me., of the bark Marathon, New York, returning from a voyage 'around the world, brought back a terrible story in regard to them. At one of the ports ai which he stopped he had fallen in w;ith a sailor, or some one who knew him, who purported to lie the sole survivor of the three crews. The vessels, he said, had become becalmed in the vicinity of the Aukland Islands, and laid there together several days. They were boarded at night by cannibals, who came in large numbers, overpowered the crews, plundered the ships and scuttled them. The men were earned prisoners to iut-shore, and furnished food for the horrible feast of their captors. Xo particulars of the fight or of the survivor's escape were obtained, but the facts are pretty well authenticated, and the long absence of the vessels furnishes good ground for lielieving that the story may le true. The survivor was one of the crew of the Jewess, and he is said to have related that the surprise was complete, the vessels being some distance from land, and no signs of enemies having liecn seen. The usual precaution taken when a ship is becalmed in the vicinity of land inhabited by savages is to drive sharp "nails, placed closely together, through boards, which are placed over the decks, and .fastened firmly down, leaving the sharp iron points sticking up. It is then impossible for the barefooted savage to step upon the deck, and they are shot off at leisure. This precaution was not taken on lioard the Jewess, the survivor said, liecause no danger was suspected. It is understood that no ship of the I'nited States Navy is now stationed in the South Seas, or within reasonable distance of the vicinity where the terrible tragedy is credited as having been enacted. The Jewess was nearly iiOO tons burden. Captain Mayo, of Chelsea, was the managing owner; and Mark Uoogina, of East Boston, Caleb Katun, ami Frank Lane were part owners. Frank Lewis, of East Boston, was one of the mates on the three vessels. There were probably thirty men, but the names of any cannot be ascertained, most of them having been shipped iu foreign ports. Time will probably bring t light fuller particulars of their horrible fate. A Well-Tested Title to Real Estate. Divesting the story, as told in the Aim riaitt Low h'rririr, as far as possible of technicalities, it is briefly this: Fifteen years ago, Mr. William Inga'.Is owned a piece of properly in that part of Boston which has since been ravaged by the great fire. His father had left this property to him by will, his mother having a life interest in it till her death iu 1815. The will also contained two legacies of .2.,inio each to the nephews, named Jones, of the elder I ngu Is; but before his death he lost all his property except the real estate, and the legacies were not paid. There is no limit as to the time in which au action can be brought in Massachusetts to recover a legacy; a faint the year lSo'J the brothers Jones began suit for theirs, and two years afterward recovered the amount, with interest; a total of a'llJ.WO. The Ingalls real estate was sold to meet this claim, producing not quite enough, by .stinn; antl the brothers Jones 'nought it as a good investment for their legacy. Mr. Ingalls's inheritance thm liecame less tliau nothing. The ground of the decision was that as his father's will gave him exactly what he would have got if there had liecn no will, the devise to him was void and he took title by descent; but the legacies being a valid devise, took precedence. Scarcely had the Joneses stepped into their property before John kogers fa'gan suit for it. He showed that in 17."0 an owner o " the property had willed it to his brother, "if he shall die without issue." That brother had a daughter, and she left the estate by will in 171H) to her daughter, who sold it to the elder Ingalls. But the daughter who left it by will had not in law the right to do so. The will of 1 Tot', containing the phrase above quoted, was meant to give the estate to the heirs at law. The daughter to whom the pr-perty had been willed in 17W was not the heir; IVicr Kogers was. His son. John Kogers, sued forthe estate and recovered it in lsi"." from the brothers Jones. Then a young lawyer went to studying the case. He went back of 1 T.V to ltlOand found that the property hail then passed by a deed which conveyed the land to one Johnson : but the document did not say, as is usual, "to his heirs." CntPsequenlly, when Johnson died, the estate reverted to the man who sold it to hiin, or rather, to his heirs. These heirs were fount! ; a real estate operator in Boston supplied the funds for the suit, bought off the heirs for a trifle, won the case, and gained possession. When the tire swept over the property he bought a lot alongside, antl erected on both lots large, deep, substantial stores. ( Meanwhile Mr. Ingalls, the lirst of the list of ovvuers, had been studying the title to his lost properly in records of a yet earlier date. He 'found that iu lt'ifiii'it had been willed on the condition that a certain portion of it should never be built upon. This condition had been violated in rebuilding after the fire. Stranger still, Mr. Ingalls found that the testator of ltioO was his ancestor. ami that he (Ingalls) was the direct heir. He brought suit against the real estate operator. The latter, it is said, consulted me spirits anil was auviscn to compromise on the fa-st terms attaina ble. Mr. Ingalls received uacK ins property in the ground and gave a inort gage for the building, finding himself on the whole a much richer man than at first. The mortgage wa subsequently transferred and Mr. Ingalls's title again thoroughly searched anil pri-nounecd perfect." In the long list of transfers of real estate which appear every day in our columns, how many of the titles would stand a test of equal severity ? A Snake Bvn Discovered Near Bon liar bor-300 Slanghtered. While out hunting on last Tuesday, Mr. Kichard Ives discovered a large cave in the side of a hill under a rock, and while opposite heard the squealing of pigs inside. He stepped close to the mouth of the cave to investigate the matter, and to his horror saw protruding the head of an immense rattlesnake, with a pig in its mouth. The pig was about four months old, and weighed about seventy-five pounds. He summoned a number of his neighlors, with guns and pitchforks, w ho built a large fire in the mouth of the cave in order to drive the snakes out. In alout an hour they commenced pouring out over the burning coals. As they approached in sight the parties fired upon them from 1 ton of the cliff. They continued to pour out until the surrounding woods for twenty yards square was nieranv covered with dead and live snakes. Thev killed 310, but many made their escape. I he largest one killed a man was ten feet long, ami measureu around the body one and a half feet ; thi next laro-est a female was seven feet long, and measured one" foot around the body. J he largest snakes nave been preserved in alcohol, and will be ovhiKiiion t nr Fair free of charge. The snntA referred to had 110 rattles. The cave was literally tilled with the heads and bones of sheep, pigs, etc., which had been captured from the surrounding country. Ford's Southern (Krf.) SAichl. A man named Milton Leonard, from Stafford, Conn., blew his gas out at the Belmont House, Boston, arid in the morning was found dead. AFTER THE FIRE. Krrnr In Virginia City-How thr People l.ire-.o t r flag Over KpUt JIUk. From Uie Virginia Chronicle, Oct. !S. Virginia feels in better spirits to-day. Kuinetl walls, smoking heaps of debris, piles of gnarled iron and small mountains of broken brick are becoming familiar to the eye, and the man who yesterday had to stop and scratch his head ere he could pick out a street from among the ruined waste, trots about today with an air of familiarity and increased cheerfulness. F'very body seems to make it a point of honor to be as cheerful as possible. Virginia has evidently a large share of the Mark Tap-ley spirit, and is determined to come out strong under adverse circumstances. The amount of jollity developed by thousands of men who have lost their all, is astounding. The universality of the destruction of property, without doubt, makes it easier to bear. It may not be generous in Smith to bear the loss of his house better because Jones' residence is in ashes, but that Smith does take comfort in the loss of his 'nefghbor.s non thtTle? trne." Men ate ashamed to complain when they know that every one about them is in as sad a plight as'theniselves. In the midst of ashes, therefore, Virginia is cheerful, ami instead of crying over spilt milk is bravely setting about to build up again what the fire has laid waste. The energy of the business men of the city is extraordinary. Before the wrecks of 4 heir three and four-story brick buildings are done smoking they have set small armies of laborer? at work to clear away the rubbish and run up temporary shanties. Stuck up within a few feet of red-hot, smoldering piles of debris are little written notices informing the public that Si-and-so Company are not by any means dead yet, and will resume business in a day or two. Others, still more enterprising, have hail lumber hauled to the ground, and are, with all dispatch, erecting frame buildings and preparing to liegin business again at the earliest possible moment. On C Street, the Lafayette Market ran np ashed yesterday, and last night and to-day have Im-cii doing a rushing business in chops and steaks. The "Snug" saloon has reopened in a little corner of this shanty, and over a bar, formed of two rough boards, dispenses whisky to the Virginia sufferers at the generous tariff of one bit jht drink. HOW THE TEOl'LE LIVK. The restaurants are doing a rushing trade, and in those of the rawbonc variety the improvement in the class of customers proves that the fire, while leveling brick and stone, did equally effective work on the social lines. Gas leing one of the departed luxuries, candles in elegant sticks composed of small blocks of wood and three nails, graced the tables of the eating houses; waiters saucy antl excited, and the importance of the proprietors can only be equaled by the dignity of a special policeman. Homeless people who on the night before had camped on the hillsides, in the old tunnels, and bivouacked behind bowlders and piles of sage brush, devoted the hours yesterday toa search for more comfortable quarters, and generally succeeded. To the credit of human nature it may be set down that not a single instance is known where the doors of those who escaped ruin have been closed against the homeless. Every house in town is a sort of barrack. The spare beds are all double loaded, of course, and half the population sleep on shake downs, eat where thev can, and keep up an amazing cheerfulness. Yesterday toward sundown a cold west wind sprang up, which presently brought rain. After dark the rain changed to snow, and it seemed as if heaven were determined to send its whole list of afflictions upon the suffering city in a lump. The few saloons remaining of the prosperous hundreds of Monday, did a tremendous business. Mixed drinks were generally barred, as the press of custom allowed no time for such compilations, and the Virginia sufferers had to content themselves with uncompromising straights. VIKI'.IM.V VMr.K MARTIAL LAW. The sufferers were deprived of even their whisky after S o'clock, for at that hour (Sen. John B. Winters detailed squads of men, who marched about the streets peremptorily closing all the saloons. This inovej though rather summary, was a good one. A great many men' had taken more liquor than was good for them, and lights were Incoming too frequent for the com fort of sober citizens. The military took entirecharge of the town and preserved jiropert3-from thieves, who were numerous, and during the tlay carried off a good ileal of property from the sites of burned buildings. Strollers along the devasted streets found bayonets confronting them at the intst unexpected points, and were forced to turn back. Although the street lamps have gone the way of nearly every thing capable of combustion, the glare of the burning heaps of rubbish, blazing vigorously all over the town, furnished plenty of light for the soldiers to patrol the streets and drive off all interlopers. Beside protecting damaged property from dishonest persons, the military hail a good deal of work to keep heedless people out of danger. C Street is lined with toppling walls and chimneys, which now and again come down with a crash and pri-duce a small earthquake. The night was very cold. A hard frost set in when the snow ceased. This morning ice a quarter of an inch in thickness formed on the pools of water in the streets. Among the ruins at various points, par-tics of men had rigged up stoves, and by sunrise were clustering around their tires, ciwking their breakfasts and warming their chilled bodies. High banks were in request for shelter, as a strong, frosty wind came bowling over the snow capped mountains from the west. Couldn't Play It. A colored man named Nelson is owing a butcher on Beaubien Street five or six dollars, and after trying in vain to collect the money the butcher and a friend put their heails together the other night and laid a plan. About midnight they called at Nelson's house, and he was awakened by a rap on the window. Who's dar?" he called out. "The Devil!" solemnly remarked the butcher. "You is, hey?" "Yes. I want you!" "What fur?" "You refuse to pay your butcher, and I am sent to take you to the bot- f.,,.t..i nit'"' "You is?" "I am! Come forth at once!" " Ize coming!" replied the negro as he jumped out of bed ; " 1 can't pay that six dollars half as easy in any odder way. an' de old woman is so miglitv cross Ize glad to get away from home!" The butcher and his friend didn't wait for Mr. Nelson to corne out. De- tvril Free Press. PITH AXD P0LYT. The amount of patience which we bring to bear on babies depends very much on whether or not we have babies of our own. . " Ue was milking the river and fell in" is the JUx;lipstzr Democrat's explanation of the death by drowning of a milkman a few days - shrre. See the pint? A handsome youth, being questioned by a rather stylish lady as to his occupation, replied that he was an "adjuster of movable alphabets." He was simply a printer. " What kind of a man is Squire Simmons any way?" "Well, you've seen them snow storms along early in winter, when there's a good deal of wind and not much sleighing? . That's the sort he is." The other day when a resident of First Street went home to dinner his wife asked him why he sent a stranger to the house after his Sunday suit. " I didn't," he bluntly replied. " 44 Bu a ytmng man called and said soad 1 5Mhirn the clothes' jJie; anitb hw a pc.in-ful pause, ainl,shtf..continii4Ja "Yon can't blanr nie." . A -No, can't," he replied, ' "bui I wish yon a"iiL J knew enough to hist' fts' oVf r4 higuT.' She didut eat any dinner, ..of coarse. Dc-Uoil Free Press. A Vicksbckg negro applied to a citi zen the other day for a little advice, asking: " Mr. Thompson, would you lend Cuff Jones $40 if you was me?" "Well, what security can he offer?" A mortgnlge." " A mortgage ? W hv. what has he got to mortgage ?" ' Dat's what bodders me, Mr. Thompson. I knows he don't own nnflin but de duds on his back." " Well then, how can he give you a mortgage?" "Dat s de reshun, Jlr. Thompson. NoJe. it, and I'se made np my mind iitthe- cant have dc money unless he gives me his note of hand" Vicksburg Herald. As Atlanta youth gotten np in the latest style, left a West End car and tripped across to a house where a little boy was sitting on the front steps, whit tling with a new Barlow knife. The boy looked up and said : 44 1 say, young man, ver don 't want ter be coming around here any more, yer don t! . "Why, Charlie, what's the matter?" "'Cause there's a feller that wears ja . diamond bres-pin and rides in his own horse-and buggy a comin' here to see f Sis now, and a fellow like you, what has tcr rule 'round in a bob-tail street-kyr . hain't got no show, 'cept to take a front" seat on the back fence and watch, 'em lixiu' things fur the weddin'!" .The ' young man turned away looking likei--. sweet-potato vine alter a macs irwi. Constitution. - A Dael to the Death. A Xew York dispatch to the Chicago Tribune gives the following particulars regarding a recent tragic event in that city: A terrible duel with pistols was fought in a small room in a tenement house at No. 10G Delancy Street, in this city, on Tuesday afternoon. The fight grew out of a personal quarrel on a matter of business, and the contestants, josepn Goldman and David Jaroslow by name, were both Hebrews, and natives of Russian Poland, and had been partners in manufacturing jewelry at No. a'J tast Broadway for about two years. Ke- cently bnsiness had not been very re munerative, and Jaroslow oecame suspicious of his partner, and liegan keeping a separate account of his transac tions. Ihis account connrmea nis sus picions, and the partners had a disa greement, resulting in a dissolution of the firm m August last, ine money which Jaroslow had invested was gone, and he found himself almost penniless. He, however, formed a partnership with another jeweler and liegan business anew. Goldman resented the suspicions east upon him, and was accustomed to speak reproachfully to his former partner, and to mention him with bitter terms in conversation with others. Goldman resided at No. P0 Hester Street, and Jaroslow at No. l'.l Essex Street. On Monday night Goldman met Jaroslow at the Atlantic Garden, in the Bowery, and asked him to take a glass of beer. After drinking several times, (Soldman went to the resi dence of a friend, Daniel Pearison, at No. 10 Delaney Street, bade Jaroslow good night. Goldman slept that nio-ht -with IVarison. ami ft The morn ing complainerr'of hrdc!l? Pearison went awav to his work about o'clock, leaving Goldman in bed, and did not return until after the shooting, almut niKin. On Tuesday Goldman called at No. 19 Essex Street to see Jaroslow, and asked him to pay him 1.2 which he said Jaroslow owed him. Jaroslow replied that he had not the change with him, but could pay it some other time. (Soldman then, after some further con versation, went away, and soon after sent a message to Jaroslow that a lady friend of his wished to see.him at No. 16 lVlaney Street, before leaving the city. Jaroslow immediately went to the house, went np to the room of Peari son, on the fourth floor, where (old- man was. Miss Josephine Heidman, living in the same house, on the third lloor. back room, reports that, alKHit 4 o'clix'k in the afternoon she heard eight pistol-shots fired in rapid succession, followed by the noise of something falling. Being very much frightened, she ran to the Tenth Precinct Station-house on Flldridge Street and gave an alarm. Officer Henken went with her immedi ately to the house and ascended to the top floor, but all was .then still. The officer knocked at the door of Peari- son's room where the two men were, but received-no reply, and then broke oen the door with a hatchet. A terrible sight was before him. Goldman was lying on the floor dead, with a pistol clenched in his hand, and Jaroslow .... a i l I I- was half sitting antl nan snreiin-, proptMHl against the door, living but in sensible. A partly discharged pistol re mained in his band. Both men were shot through the head, and the marks of other shots were fonnd in the walls of the room. The room was not larger than 10 by 15 feet in dimensions, and the encounter had evidently been entered upon with deadly intentions. The pistols were seven chambered revolvers, out of which four chambers of one and three of the other were emptied. An nml.nl.ince was telegraphed for, and Jaroslow was taken to Bellevue Ibspi- tal, but died in the amouiance wmie on hi9 way to the hospital. The friends of (Soldman claim that Jaroslow shot him and then committed suicide. No foundation for such a claim is known, and . the fact that each man was found with a pistol in his hand contradicts the sup position. A Horrible Death. Yesterday morning abont 9 o'clock, J:kmis Or. W f IU. t Jllly vji mond's paper mill, met a horrible and sudden death. The unfortunate man on an apron tied with bagging ctnnm: II0 HTM Wirtinl tlV OTIP III 11 IS companions of the danger in wearing it not ten minutes oeiore ine acciueni. It is supposed tnat tne string got en- tan igled with the main shaft, and urew a to it ere he was conscious of his him peril. 'With lightning-like rapidity the shaft whipped turn round ami romio, until his body was wound round the shaft and his brains beat out against the ground. There were six or seven men working withm .1' : , full sigSt, but so quickly was the sau work accomplished that he had no time to utter a single err. Ue leaves a wife, but no children. His parents reside at Kome. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.